Beyond all the wise and practical advice Gilmore offers, there is another reason why I love this book - it's funny and fun to read. Though the author writes with great authority, he never places himself above the reader. Indeed, he uses humorous anecdotes from his personal life and classroom to humble himself and create a sense of joy even as he tackles a subject of dread for most English teachers. - Barry Lane Author of After the End Why do so many students resist revision? Maybe because it feels to them like starting over, like an indictment of their first draft, or a rejection of their ideas. Encouraging teens to see revision as process rather than criticism, as the bridge between generating ideas and finalizing their work for publication, is crucial to their growth and success as thoughtful adult writers. With “Is It Done Yet?” Barry Gilmore helps you push your writers toward a new, realistic understanding of revision while offering proven ways to overcome student resistance. Is It Done Yet? takes a new, refreshing look at revision. It acknowledges that while writing manuals often suggest general guidelines for writing, few target the specific and recurring issues of style and argumentation that students typically encounter in their assignments. Gilmore offers a variety of practical strategies for incorporating revision at all stages of the writing process - especially in content and style - as well as in numerous genres, including literary analysis, on-demand writing, and the college entrance essay. He goes beyond marking up grammar and spelling, differentiates editing from revising, and presents a multifaceted approach that moves students toward an understanding of revision as a process that helps them write fluently and communicate more effectively. All the while, Gilmore will help you change your own sense of revision so that you can use it to match up student needs with specific instructional focuses. Humorous, practical, and accessible, Is It Done Yet? includes classroom samples of student writing and revision, a thorough description of Gilmore's step-by-step process for incorporating powerful revision lessons, and ready-to-use activities that engage students and support your teaching. In addition, with chapters on peer and class revision, revision in creative writing, and using technology during revision, he gives you everything you need to get kids revising and develop their maturity as writers - to help them complete papers with pride, confidence, and craft.

Is It Done Yet?: Teaching Adolescents the Art of Revision

Reference

Gilmore, Barry

Lane, Barry

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Heinemann

Barry Lane's bestselling After THE END helped teachers see revision in a whole new light, and inspired a generation of students to not only embrace revision, but to realize that writing is revision. The long-awaited second edition keeps Barry's humorous and endearing tone and updates his ideas, lessons, and activities for teaching writing with heart, even in the Common Core era. New material in this edition includes: <ul>
<li> How to teach argument and informational writing for authentic, powerful results </li> <li> Integrating technology into literacy lessons for today's students, using tablets, smart phones and apps </li> <li> Qr Code links to video clips that help teachers model Barry's ideas in the classroom </li> <li> Interviews with professional writers and master teachers about their own writing and revising processes and best lessons </li> <li> Nonfiction connections that help students learn to creatively revise any genre. </li> <li> Updated appendices with professional resources and mentor texts </li> </ul>
Rediscover why Barry Lane is a beloved and inspirational teacher, writer, and storyteller. And "after the end," know that it's really only a great new beginning for your students and their writing.

After THE END, Second Edition: Teaching and Learning Creative Revision

At a time when the writing process is sometimes viewed as a seven-step recipe, with revision one of those steps, author Barry Lane inspires language arts teachers to approach the subject with flexibility and playfulness. He encourages both teachers and students to enjoy a sense of discovery and surprise in their writing, as well as to examine and explore their own distinct revising styles.
After "THE END" revises our concept of revision, illustrating it as a constant inventive search for new possibilities and divergent meanings, rather than mere correction or what students wearily refer to as "redoing." For students in upper elementary to secondary school and beyond, and for every teacher looking to develop a common language of craft in the classroom,After "THE END" is a book of practical ideas and applications that inspire the reader to put it down and put it to use.

After "The End": Teaching and Learning Creative Revision

Words, Language & Grammar

Through anecdote, classroom vignette, and his own experience as a writer and teacher, Barry encourages teachers of any grade level to start a writing program tomorrow and not wait until they have attained perfect understanding. Barry's motto: Let's learn along the way! For use with Grades K-12.

But How Do You Teach Writing?: A Simple Guide for All Teachers

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Teacher's Friend

The story of Canadian Pacific is one of the greatest stories in the world. Straddling the continent for more than a century and globe for more than fifty years, Canadian Pacific is inextricably linked with the history of Canada itself. In 1885, the company completed the construction of two thousand miles of railway system and linking the Atlantic to the Pacific. It then established fleets of vessels on both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, laying the foundation for a transportation route that allowed members of the British Empire to travel around the world. To enhance the travel experience, the company also constructed great castle-like hotels, including the Algonquin in St. Andrews, the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City, and the Banff Springs Hotel in the Rockies, which themselves became landmarks. In this sumptuously illustrated history of a company whose story is integral to the Golden Age of Travel, Barry Lane recounts the history of Canadian Pacific, from the construction of the transcontinental railway to the development of the hotels and the building of the shipping line that linked Canada to the rest of the world.

Canadian Pacific: The Golden Age of Travel

Business & Money

Industries

Goose Lane Editions

Provides exercises designed to help one write more freely and expressively and includes advice on evaluating and editing one's work

Discovering the Writer Within: 40 Days to More Imaginative Writing

Ballenger, Bruce

Literature & Fiction

Writers' Digest Books

Enter into a written journey of self-exploration. With scores of inspiring exercises and motivating examples author Barry Lane leads the reader through the three "r"s of writing: Remembering: digging up old stories. Reframing: questioning and re-seeing the past. Re-experiencing: reliving old stories with new eyes If you've every felt your writing could be a highway to insight, this book was written to be your road map.

Writing As a Road to Self-Discovery

Grade level K-12 Written and edited by Barry Lane 
Barry Lane’s Reviser’s Toolbox gives teachers classroom ready examples and lessons to share revision concepts like leads, endings, snapshots, thoughtshots, exploded moments and scenes with their students. 
This book can sit write beside your lesson planner and help you all year long.

The Reviser's Toolbox

Discover Writing Press

Written by Barry Lane and illustrated by Miles Bodimeade, this is a book you can either hand to kids or use yourself to create unusual, exciting and downright silly research reports. The richly illustrated lessons include advice columns, recipe poems, world’s thinnest books, a day in the life of a cell, how to poems, and much much more.

51 Wacky We-Search Reports: Face the Facts With Fun

Children's Books

Discover Writing Pr

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Books by Lane, Barry

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Is It Done Yet?: Teaching Adolescents the Art of Revision

After THE END, Second Edition: Teaching and Learning Creative Revision

After "The End": Teaching and Learning Creative Revision

But How Do You Teach Writing?: A Simple Guide for All Teachers

Canadian Pacific: The Golden Age of Travel

Discovering the Writer Within: 40 Days to More Imaginative Writing

Writing As a Road to Self-Discovery

Discovering the Writer Within: 40 Days to More Imaginative Writing

The Reviser's Toolbox

51 Wacky We-Search Reports: Face the Facts With Fun